SOLUTION: 1. Given the linear equation : -3x + 5y = 15 a. Show and explain the process to find the x and y intercepts b. Use the x- and y-intercepts found in part a and

Question 1112005: 1. Given the linear equation : -3x + 5y = 15
a. Show and explain the process to find the x and y intercepts
b. Use the x- and y-intercepts found in part a and the slope formula to find the slope. Show all work.
c. Begin with the form -3x+5y=15 and write the equation in slope intercept form. Show all work.
d. Based on the slope-intercept form of the line, what are the slope and y-intercept ? Are these values consistent with answers in parts a and b ?

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a.
For , , and solving for we find
and for the x-intercept.
For , , and solving for we find
and for the y-intercept.
The points called x-intercept and y-intercept are
and respectively.

EXPLANATION:
The x-intercept sometimes means the point where the line intersects the x-axis,
but as for all points of the x-axis, that intersection point has
so its x-coordinate is also called the x-intercept of the line.
Similarly, the point (with ) , or just its y-coordinate is called the y-intercept.

b.
Maybe you were taught that the slope of a line going through points and is
.
Applied to the points found in part a,
.
So, .

c.
There is an infinite number of equivalent equations that represent the same line as ,
but there is only one that starts with "y=", and that is the slope-intercept form.
To get it, we just solve for y:

.

d.
The slope-intercept form of the equation of a line is an equation of the form
where the constants and
are the slope and y-intercept of the line respectively.
The equation found in part c,
tells us That is the slope (as found in part b),
and that is the y-intercept (as found in part a).
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